Hi there,In order to change the license of the source-code of an open-source project the official procedure is that all authors that contributed (reasonable) to the code give their agreement (potentially by signature).
This is especially for larger projects a big procedure.
I personally see no point why a change from ASL2.0 to MIT would really make a big difference here. In my company ASL2.0 is the most preferred OSS licenese right after MIT/BSD-style licenses. We had professional lawyers consulting us for choosing liceneses for own code as well as how do deal with usage of OSS code in open or closed source projects.
Best regards Jörg Am 04.09.2014 23:52, schrieb Dan Tran:
Here is quote from our internal doc regarding apachev2 These licenses contain automatic patent licenses. Some specific technologies have been reviewed and found to be free of undesired impact on XXXXX's patent portfolio. XXXXX development organizations are approved only to use the specific technologies listed here covered by these licenses. Here is the one for MIT/BSD while generally benign, may include copyright, license publication, or advertising requirements. These must be reflected in the Compliance Plan.here is another interesting reference http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40100/apache-license-vs-bsd-vs-mitVery interestingThe question is there a rule where I as main developer/maintainer not allow to change the license??-DOn Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Robert Scholte <codeh...@sourcegrounds.com <mailto:codeh...@sourcegrounds.com>> wrote:Hi, read http://www.codehaus.org/customs/licenses.html The advice is to use ASL2, although MIT is permitted. I want to hear the facts why "they say" MIT would be better. Robert Op Wed, 03 Sep 2014 21:40:48 +0200 schreef Dan Tran <dant...@gmail.com <mailto:dant...@gmail.com>>: OK, They are not my plugins, they belong to MOJO@codehaus those like vfs-maven-plugin, wagon-maven-plugin From what I heard MIT is most friendly license, better than ASL, do what you want, no need to keep copyright? -D On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Karl Heinz Marbaise <khmarba...@gmx.de <mailto:khmarba...@gmx.de>> wrote: Hi Dan, On 9/3/14 8:08 PM, Dan Tran wrote: What is the process/procedure for doing so? Motivation: my company prefer MIT over ASL2, ie less hassle for me to deal with. Just one Question: What do you mean by 'my plugins' ? Of which plugins are we talking about are those plugins are belonging you in person ... Furthermore ASL2 is the best a company can use... Kind regards Karl-Heinz Marbaise --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
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